Sentence examples for determining threats from inspiring English sources

"When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways," writes Mr. Kagan, concluding, in words already famous in another context, "Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus".

Last week, we heard from the U.S. Government Accountability Office that the Environmental Protection Agency could do much more to incorporate biomonitoring into the process of determining threats posed by our unwitting exposures to hazardous chemicals in everyday things.

Topography affects segregation mechanisms within granular flows (Baines 1998; Waltham 2004), determining threat for local populations in the case of PDCs (Fisher 1995; Abdurachman et al. 2000; Lube et al. 2011).

The type of freshwater habitat also appeared to be important in determining threat levels (Fig. 3), with 34% of species inhabiting lotic habitats being under threat (rivers and streams; proportion threatened 0.34, 95% CI 0.53 0.24) compared with 20% of marsh species (proportion threatened 0.20, 95% CI 0.34 0.15) and lake species (proportion threatened 0.20, 95% CI 0.36 0.15).

This study shows a suitable statistical procedure to determine threats to amphibian species in medium size administrative areas.

Decision making within the simulation determines threat levels by combined signatures.

This perspective describes five of the top global infectious disease threats of particular concern to the CDC as a 'snapshot' of what we monitored during 2012 and will guide subjective judgment when determining which threats will be most closely monitored during 2013.

It's about determining the threat level.

Officials are still determining what threat the new virus may pose.

These findings support the results of Fuller et al. who found that lowland forests and areas designated for forest conversion in East Kalimantan were more threatened than upland forests and areas not designated for conversion, with slope, elevation, and fire being important factors in determining the threat to forest cover [49].

It may be the case that the regional frequency of overcast nights is more important than population density in determining the threat posed to urban ecosystems by light pollution.